HC sentenced the young man convicted for killing a neighbor

The Madras High Court on Wednesday sentenced a trial court to a death sentence imposed on an unemployed youth convicted for killing his 54-year-old female neighbor in a residential complex in Coimbatore before robbing her jewelry to pieces. Given. , Stuffed them into two suitcases and then let them rot in their rented apartment for days together.

Justices PN Prakash and V. Sivagananam, however, ordered that the convict J. Yasser Arafat must undergo imprisonment for a minimum term of 25 years without any waiver, as he committed a crime against a defective woman, who was his mother’s age, just for robbing him of gold jewelry. He said that the culprit was 22 years old when he murdered the woman on 13 February 2013.

Noting by the trial court that this is a rare case of capital punishment in the rarest of cases, the Division Bench said: “This is another run-of-mill case of murder for profit and nothing more. .. It is not the case of the prosecution that the appellant said about the grieving of any survivor. The post-mortem certificate clearly shows that Saroja died of strangulation of her neck and all the other injuries are in the post-mortem. , Not for anti-mortem.

“To get rid of the jewelery worn by Saroja after her death, the appellant destroyed her body parts to avoid detection. Therefore, he had filled the broken parts in two suitcases and hid a pair of thighs above the cupboard thinking that he would be in a position to remove the two suitcases and avoid detection. Luck may not have smiled upon him, and the unbearable pungent odor emanating from the two suitcases and the cupboard betrayed him badly. ”

Further, stating that there was no other material worth the salt to show that the appellant had an intrinsic criminal tendency and would be a threat to society, the judges stated that in persuading themselves to confirm Were unable to. The death penalty which the appellant slapped by the trial court.